Anthropic Opens Bio "Wet Lab" in SF and Meta's Muse App

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We made it to the weekend. I hope you guys are all doing fantastic. Titting on the show, I want to talk about Anthropic, and they are quietly setting up a biology lab. They're ramping up their AI drug program. There is, as you can imagine, a lot of comments on X and everywhere else about this. We also have some news that I'm excited for, and I kind of feel like I'm turning into like a Meta stan at this point, which I've never been in my entire life. But Meta's Muse app is now on Mac. They have a Mac app, and I'm actually super stoked about that. We also have the fact that Mammoth is looking at a $4 billion valuation. They're doing a $500 million raise. This is after Meta bought them, and Beijing said, just kidding, they meant basically like turn the company back and unwind the acquisition. We also have the fact that the FAA is tapping airspace intelligence for an $875 million AI air traffic control system. Lots of comments on this right now.

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